{"id":28146,"date":"2015-03-03T08:31:38","date_gmt":"2015-03-03T08:31:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=28146"},"modified":"2015-03-03T08:31:38","modified_gmt":"2015-03-03T08:31:38","slug":"northern-ireland-to-pay-the-price-for-tax-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2015\/03\/03\/northern-ireland-to-pay-the-price-for-tax-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Northern Ireland to pay the price for tax competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/a40aa234-c0f6-11e4-88ca-00144feab7de.html?ftcamp=crm\/email\/201533\/nbe\/UKMorningHeadlines\/product#axzz3TJBPYjn6\" target=\"_blank\"> FT reports this morning<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a title=\"Northern Ireland news headlines - FT.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/topics\/places\/Northern_Ireland\">Northern Ireland<\/a>\u2019s devolved government faces its biggest overhaul in 15 years as politicians and officials brace for the arrival of long-delayed public spending cuts.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Those cuts are the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2015\/01\/09\/northern-irelands-low-corporation-tax-rate-will-not-attract-new-business\/\" target=\"_blank\">price Northern Ireland has to pay<\/a> to introduce the tax competition that its politicians wish for with the Republic of Ireland. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2014\/12\/24\/northern-ireland-to-set-the-uk-corporation-tax-race-to-the-bottom-on-its-way\/\" target=\"_blank\">I have long warned<\/a> that this policy is little short of economic madness, and I think I'm about to be proved right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the FT reports this morning: Northern Ireland\u2019s devolved government faces its biggest overhaul in 15 years as politicians and officials brace for the arrival<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2015\/03\/03\/northern-ireland-to-pay-the-price-for-tax-competition\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}